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April 27, Senate Agriculture Committee Reports 2012 Farm Bill - Includes $500M in Mandatory Funding
The Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee marked up the Agriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act of 2012 (the 2012 Farm Bill) yesterday and reported the bill to the full Senate for further consideration. The Senate bill continues funding for five programs initiated in the 2008 Farm Bill: (1) Organic Agriculture Research and Extension; (2) Specialty Crops Research Initiative; (3) Beginning Farmer and Rancher Development; (4) Biodiesel Fuel Education; and (5) Biomass R&D. In addition, the bill would provide the authority to establish a new Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research and provide it with mandatory funding. [Read Full Report]
April 26. Senate Agriculture Appropriations Bill Includes NIFA Increase of $36.5M
The Senate Appropriations Committee has marked up its FY 2013 Agriculture Appropriations bill and has made a $36.480 million increase in the topline appropriation for the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA). As you can see from the following table nearly all ($33.486 million) of the increase would be for the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI). [Read Full Report]
Feb. 28 Information for House & Senate Offices
The Budget and Advocacy Committee has posted the one-pagers that have been developed to explain the land-grant system's FY 2013 priority requests for the National Institute of Food and Agriculture. These one-pagers contain all data needed for House and Senate offices to complete the Appropriations Commitee's online forms. [FY 2013 Documents]
Feb. 13 - President's FY 2013 Budget Released
The President's Budget for FY 2013 was released today and proposes a slight increase in funding for programs at the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA). A complete breakdown of NIFA accounts is shown in our report. [Read Full Report]
Feb. 2 - 2012 Farm Bill Outlook
The last Farm Bill was enacted in 2008 and made many changes to programs which provide funding for the colleges of food, agriculture, and natural resources at America’s land-grant universities and related institutions. The 2008 Farm Bill contained land-grant victories large and small, the most significant being establishment of the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA). With authorities enacted in 2008 set to expire on September 30, 2012 (the end of FY 2012), both the House and Senate Agriculture Committees are beginning to work on the 2012 Farm Bill. This is the first of what will be a series of reports as Congress debates the 2012 Farm Bill. [Read Full Report]
Nov. 18 - FY 2012 Agriculture Appropriations Bill Becomes Law – 99% of NIFA Top-Line Funding Sustained
The President has signed the Agriculture Appropriations bill for FY 2012 into law and, as promised in our last report, we are able to provide additional details about the final results for the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA). We are pleased to report that the NIFA appropriation for FY 2012 is $1.202 billion or 99% of the FY 2011 top-line appropriation. Moreover, all seven priorities established by the Board on Agriculture Assembly’s Budget and Advocacy Committee (BAC) were funded at (or in the case of Smith-Lever slightly above) their FY 2011 enacted levels. [Read Full Report]
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